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authorWerner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>1998-11-05 19:00:08 +0100
committerWerner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>1998-11-05 19:00:08 +0100
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For more see the chapter "The Web of Trust" in the
Manual [gpg: Oops: Internal error: manual not found - sorry]
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+ Q: How do interpret some of the informational outputs:
+ A: While checking the validness of a key, GnuPG sometimes print
+ some informations which are prefixed with information about
+ the checked item:
+ "key 12345678.3456"
+ This is about the key with key ID 12345678 and the internal
+ number 3456, which is the record number of the so called
+ directory record in the trustdb.
+ "uid 12345678.3456/ACDE"
+ This is about the user ID for the same key; to identify the
+ user ID the last two bytes of a ripe-md-160 over the user ID
+ tring is printed.
+ "sig 12345678.3456/ACDE/9A8B7C6D"
+ This is about the signature with key ID 9A8B7C6D for the
+ above key and user ID, if it is a signature which is direct
+ on a key, the user ID part is empty (..//..).